WATCH: Elaborate Justin Bieber prank at Sandton City

A South African YouTuber caused, well, a bit of a scene at Sandton City last weekend when he pretended to be Justin Bieber.

The elaborate prank was incredibly well planned, right down to faking the Biebs’ tattoos!

As you can imagine, shoppers at Sandton City were EXCITED. There was screaming, running, high-pitched voices — but no throwing of underwear as far as we could tell. They even got mall security involved.

The brains behind the prank was South African YouTuber Aidan Atcheson and he had a lot of people fooled. To be fair to all the people running after him, he did have a team of bodyguards and fake fans fueling the fan fire.

MY FRIEND MET JUSTIN BIEBER AT THE MALL YESTERDAY I WAS RIGHT THERE HOW THE FCK AM I SO BLIND I DIDNT SEE THAT GIANT CROWD OMG